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They will insist, through legislation and other means, that Beijing's behavior toward Hong Kong become the yardstick by which Washington determines its level of cooperation with China.
Why should the U.S. public accept the yardstick JacobWeisberg offered us for "measuring the Clinton foreign-contributions scandal" in his defense of the Democrats, "Does Everybody Do It?"
The Post has a perhaps-too-friendly story about the Pope, who's visiting Mexico: "To understand the significance of this pontiff, it helps to see him through his own eyes, and measure him by the yardstick of church history."
A yardstick I watch on a daily basis is the stock price.
That yardstick is too conservative, say critics, because it was instituted when the Dow stood at about 2,300, compared with today's 7,600.